華裔建筑設計大師：貝聿銘

Ieoh Ming Pei， the 1983 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize， is a founding partner of I. M. Pei & Partners based in New York City. He was born in China in 1917， the son of a prominent banker. He came to the United States in 1935 to study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

貝聿銘，1983年普里茨克爾建筑獎獲得者，是紐約貝聿銘股份公司的創建人之一。1917年生于中國，其父是一位出色的銀行家。1935年他來到美國，先后在麻省理工學院和哈佛設計研究生院學習建筑學。

During World War Ⅱ， he served on the National defense Research Commission at Princeton， and from 1945 to 1948， taught at Harvard. In 1948 he accepted the newly created post of director of Architecture at Webb & Knapp， Inc.， the real estate development firm， and this association resulted in major architectural and planning

projects in Chicago， Philadelphia， Washington，

Pittsburgh and other cities. In 1958， he formed the partnership of I. M. Pei & Associates， which became I. M. Pei & Parteners in 1966. The partnership received the 1968 Architectural Firm Award of The American Institute of Architects.

Pei has designed over forty projects in this country and abroad， twenty of which have been award winners. His more prominent commissions have included the East Building of the National Gallery of Art， Washington， D.C.； the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library near Boston； the National Center for Atmospheric Research， Boulder， Colorado； the Dallas City Hall in Texas； the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Centre （OCBC） and Raffles City in Singapore； the West Wing of the Museum of Fine Arts， Boston； the Fragrant Hill Hotel near Beijing， China， designed to graft advanced technology onto the roofs of indigenous building and thereby sow the seed of a new， distinctly Chinese form of modern architecture； the Everson Museum of Art， Syracuse， New York； and the Texas Commerce Tower in Houston.

Pei is currently a member of the National Council on the Arts， and previously served on the National Council on the Humanities. He is

a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects，

a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects， and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters （of which he served a term as Chancellor）， the American Academy of Arts and Sciences， and the National Academy of Design. He is a

member of the Corporation of the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology.

第二次世界大戰期間，貝聿銘在國防研究委員會普林斯頓分部供職，1945年至1948年間，在哈佛任教。1948年他接受了房地產開發商韋布奈普有限公司新設立的建筑部主任的職位，他的加盟使這家公司在芝加哥、費城、華盛頓、匹茲堡及其他一些城市創造了建筑學上的杰作。1958年他組建了貝聿銘聯合社團的合股機構，并于1966年成為貝聿銘股份機構。這個合股機構在1968年獲得由美國建筑研究院頒發的建筑公司獎。

貝聿銘在美國國內及海外設計了四十多個建筑項目，其中二十項曾獲獎。他最為出色的作品包括華盛頓國家藝術館東樓；波斯頓附近的約翰·菲茨杰拉德·肯尼迪圖書館；科羅拉多博耳德的國家大氣研究中心；德克薩斯的達拉斯市政廳；海外華人銀行業務中心股份有限公司及新加坡的來福士廣場；波士頓美術博物館西翼；中國北京附近的香山飯店，該飯店的設計將先進技術用于中式建筑屋頂上，從而開創出一種新的、有鮮明中國特色的現代建筑形式；紐約州錫拉丘茲的埃弗松藝術博物館；以及休斯敦的德克薩斯商業城。

貝聿銘目前是國家藝術理事會成員，此前他任職于人文學科全國理事會。他是美國建筑師協會會員、英國建筑師皇家研究院成員、美國藝術與文學學院（他曾擔任一屆名譽院長）、美國藝術與科學學院和國家設計學院的推舉成員。他也是麻省理工學院校務委員會成員。